Time Tapestry

some of the finest steel tool sports watches ever made (why do i say that, coz i own em man ;) hahafollowing on from the last post, i wanted to zoom in on one aspect first and that is the love of exclusivity & my take on it, which is......

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sorry had to quote from Col Jessup there [if u don't get the reference, go watch 'A Few Good Men' the speech is a classic :) ] this post is about my perceptions & observations of the watch market in Singapore and on the notion of a willing buyer and...

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If you only knew the POWER OF THE BASE!!! the Panerai PAM 000 Base Logo... true to the heritage of pre-Vendome Panerai... the original logo 5218-201A...5218-201A...[note: if some of the lines in this post look like they came from a somewhat popular intergalactic space opera(in a somewhat butchered form) ,...

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to folks in the know, the 2 most classic iconic ladies bags out there would be the Hermès Birkin bag [its pronounced air-mez dAR-ling... some folks pronounce it her-mees similar sounding to herpes... but thats if u're talking about the greek messenger god... if talkin bout french horse harness and...

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what a difference a day makes... twenty four little hours...simple truth 1 - buy watches dat u can love for some timethe thing is i see people flipping watches n though some, including myself may do it for acquisition of grails, some just tire of what they have and want...

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[note that this is me sharing based on what i have experienced, seen, felt along this journey of passion... it may not resonate with everyone who isn't geared in a similar way as the raphmeister (watch mentalist) and its all good... to each their own... and one man's richard mille...

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Wishing all readers a happy and prosperous and tiger-rific year ahead ;) as i can't give you all angpows ;) just sharing some shots of a rarely seen piece first... pics of the concept thematic 12 piece unique from my fellow watch blogger dario at kronosblog...the carbon concept i love...

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3 years back i had set out with this blog to take people along my watch enthusiast/collecting journey (although not a long one so far, I hope you have found it interesting and entertaining) and the main objective for me was to advance the love of horology & spread the...

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A Singapore based watch forum Wristlounge("WL") recently got round to doing a forum watch together with a local Singapore watch company that manufactures and sells Swiss Made watches, Azimuth... I was unable to stay for long but it was nice to see the efforts of the mods to get something...

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Reap the Whirlwind...one of the pieces i like... the tempusvivendi dragon... with retrograde jumping hours and retrograde minutes... the crown has an activation button to make the hands jump to the time, and on pressing it again, they go back to their original position at the zeroes as shown...and in...

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13+ years ago that is... The Mare Nostrums...the more funky / derivative / contrived stuff they come out with the more i look at the older releases... here's one that came out Pre-V, followed by Pre-A & A. [the V in Pre-V is for Vendome which bought over Panerai from...

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SHOOTOUT!!! the G11 takes on the F31fd and a DSLR??The Canon G11 is the recent release in the G line for Canon. The G series has more or less tried to sit between the compact p&s digicams and the full featured DSLRs and had been the go to choice for...

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SIHH is upon us again and what amazes me is how year on year these companies can be churning out so many different new pieces, some of the brands coming out with 5-10 new pieces, either variations on a theme, in new metals and materials or completely new models. just...

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I normally try to stagger my posts a little so you don't read about 1 watch in 2 or more posts in a page but i realise that a fair number of the posts on this page has some connection to one Max Busser... anyways no point in delaying sharing...

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its time to look at a few other favorite boyz toyz... lets see fast cars... check... great cameras... check... cool gadgets... check :)FROM EUROTRIP [ girl in camera shop: wow is that a leica m6? jamie: actually its an M7... its got the built in light metergirl : so beautiful,...

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Max Busser is a creative genius in the horological space. the watches he has worked with friends to come out with are micro-engineered architectures and are well... simply put... bloody cool ;) so the latest of the line of HM2s is here for 2010... the sapphire vision. its a beautiful...

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this was something i had wanted to do for some time but better late than never... the saying also applies to the timepiece that is the focus of this post as well :) [note: this is a modem melting post] i would also recommend you read Andrew's post on a...

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i had the chance to take pictures of some cool sporty watches recently. the first two shown here i would personally consider to be very very nice watches and it had crossed my mind to buy them during the course of 2009... but a truth can be learnt from looking...

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pieces have been delivered and 2 mates of mine in Singapore have this interesting HM2.2 piece... the property of a gentleman (at least thats what i was told to put down ;)...

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i love my Nikon D90 DSLR and now have only Nikkor lenses to use wif it. its a crop sensor cam (~1.52* focal length multiplier) but it serves me well for the photography i do most of which is pics of my family and growing son and watches of...

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To all the cases I once caressed, And may I say I've held the best, for helping me to grow, I owe a lot I know, to all the watches I've loved before...The winds of change are always blowing, and every time I try to stayThe winds of change continue...

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all i want for Christmas is a digital M? kidding.. i have simpler wants ;) [a film m7 below... great camera system with fantastic lenses but good for some types(street, candids, portraits, available light) and bad for other types of photography(watch fotos...doh! macros, flash fotos, kids, birding, wildlife)]2009 has been...

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i was actually just gonna post the pics 'just because'... but have been thinking about this for some time... the watches that we love, the watches that we buy, we do so because they call out to something in us... for some pieces, we do so because we believe they...

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[UPDATE AS OF 13 Dec: My mate has sold the watch and is raising additional funds to make it a cool S$10k. Good on ya mate :)]hi all, i wanted to bring this to the attention of all my Singapore based readers & folks I know on our tiny island....

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